ADVENT CALENDAR DAY 7 🎄 This handcrafted lampshade panel illustrates the Visitation of the Shepherds. The panel is one of six scenes from the Nativity narrative decorating a Christmas-themed lamp in Glencairn’s Chapel. Click here for more information: bit.ly/3rFT1Rm

ADVENT CALENDAR DAY 8 🎄 This relief with Mary, the Christ Child, and the Magi is from 13th-century France. Raymond Pitcairn set this sculpture into a wall of the Great Hall of Glencairn, where it remains today. Click here for more information: bit.ly/3IwGc1x

ADVENT CALENDAR DAY 9 🎄 This painting of the Presentation in the Temple (Luke 2:25–35), an early episode in the life of Jesus Christ, was made by Maud Petersham, an artist from Woodstock, New York. Click here for more information about this object: bit.ly/33f9TUW

ADVENT CALENDAR DAY 10 🎄 This 13th-century stained-glass panel from Poitiers, France, illustrates the Visitation. The visit occurred between Mary, who was pregnant with Jesus, and her cousin Elizabeth. Click here for more information about this object: bit.ly/3dCiRxx

ADVENT CALENDAR DAY 11 🎄 This medieval sculpture shows the Christ Child seated in Mary’s lap. Both figures wear a crown. Visually, Mary is positioned as a throne for the Child, while her hands present her Son to the world. Click here for more information: bit.ly/3oMQqmY

ADVENT CALENDAR DAY 13 🎄 This scene shows the Wise Men gazing at the Star of Bethlehem; having seen the star in the East, they are now following it in order to find and worship the Christ Child (Matthew 2:2). Click here for information about this object: bit.ly/30mUO2p

ADVENT CALENDAR DAY 14 🎄 This stained-glass panel, made in 13th-century France, recounts the moment when Mary was told by the angel Gabriel that she has been chosen to be the mother of Jesus Christ. Click here for more information about this object: bit.ly/3DVjEUW

ADVENT CALENDAR DAY 15 🎄 According to the Gospel of Luke, after Jesus was born Joseph and Mary traveled to the Temple in Jerusalem. While they were there, the Holy Spirit visited Simeon and revealed to him that Jesus was the Messiah. More information: bit.ly/3H1EmEH

ADVENT CALENDAR DAY 16 🎄 Glencairn’s Chapel has a floor lamp with a handcrafted lampshade depicting scenes from the Christmas story. In this panel the Wise Men are shown following the Star of Bethlehem. Click here for more information about this object: bit.ly/3sc3STs

ADVENT CALENDAR DAY 18 🎄 This scene shows the Annunciation to the Shepherds (Luke 2:8–14). An angel descends from above, telling the shepherds they will “find a babe wrapped in swaddling cloths and lying in a manger." More information about this object: bit.ly/3E6RQgs

ADVENT CALENDAR DAY 19 🎄 This limestone relief featuring the Adoration of the Wise Men was made in 14th-century France. During the construction of Glencairn, Raymond Pitcairn set this relief into a wall of the Great Hall, where it remains. More info: bit.ly/3qb60In

ADVENT CALENDAR DAY 20 🎄 This large stained-glass window featuring Mary holding the Christ Child is one of nine lancet windows in Glencairn’s Great Hall. These windows were reproduced in the 1930s by the Bryn Athyn glassworks. More information here: bit.ly/3slxHkA

ADVENT CALENDAR DAY 21 🎄 This scene shows the Annunciation to the Shepherds (Luke 2:8–14), from the narrative of the Nativity of Jesus Christ. Winfred S. Hyatt made three Nativity scenes for the Pitcairn family during the 1920s. Click here for more info: bit.ly/3qiscAi

ADVENT CALENDAR DAY 22 🎄 Three consecutive verses in the Gospel of Matthew (2:13–15) are the only biblical source for the story of the Flight into Egypt. Click here for more information about this object: bit.ly/3plJxcy

ADVENT CALENDAR DAY 23 🎄 This 15th-century limestone sculpture in Glencairn’s Great Hall features Mary, slightly less than life-size, holding the Christ Child. She wears a crown and veil, and a mantle over her gown, girdled at the waist. More here: bit.ly/3Je6MwL

ADVENT CALENDAR DAY 24 🎄 In this stained-glass window fragment from 12th-century France, two winged angels, dressed in white robes with murrey-colored mantles, are positioned on either side of a yellow Star of Bethlehem. Click here for more information: bit.ly/3pqc6pe

ADVENT CALENDAR DAY 25 🎄 A life-size oil painting of the Adoration of the Shepherds hung above the fireplace in Glencairn’s Upper Hall for many years. Click here for more information: bit.ly/3sv1U0w

Don’t miss an opportunity to meet, connect, and collaborate with others working in the museum and arts and culture world at our upcoming Designing for Empathy II Workshop on March 5. GlencairnMuseum.org   #Empathy #Museum #DesigningForEmpathy Elif M. Gokcigdem

Don’t miss out on attending our Designing for Empathy II Workshop on Saturday, March 5 which will also include access to Glencairn’s Cloister Garden and Tower! Visit GlencairnMuseum.org for info and tickets. #Museums #Art #History #Empathy #DesigningForEmpathy #Learning

Glencairn is closed today, Saturday, March 12, due to snow and potentially dangerous travel conditions. ❄️🌨